Railroad-ticket.



Patented May 6, |902;

l. BLANCHARD.

RAILROAD TICKET.

(Application led Apr. 23, 1900.!

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ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, VOF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILROAD-TICKET.

srEcIrIcATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,139,01ated May 6, 1902.

Application filed April 23, 1900.`

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN I. BLANCHARD, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook, in theStatc of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Railroad- Tickets, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates more particularly to cash-fare slips or receipts of the general nature of that illustrated vand describedin Patent No. 405,820, heretofore issued to me on June 25, 1889, being receipts given by the conductor to passengers paying cash fares and serving in lieu of tickets for such passengers.

ent,- these tickets or cash-fare receipts were carried in loose form and a ticket-punch was employed in cutting or punching from Aone portion of the ticket the several figures which ticket to indicate the amount of the farepaidV when the two portions of the ticket were severed from each otherI along the perforated middle line. t My present improvement consists in binding a supply of the tickets into book form, perforating the tickets along a line near` their binding-point to facilitate their. removal one by one, (instead of perforating them along the middle line of the ticket,) and providing one of the covers of the book into whichl the tickets are bound with a straight edge and tearing point or recess, by means of which the ltwo portions of theticket maybe separated from. each other and the amount of the cash fare In the accompanying drawings, Figure ll shows my improved ticket-fbookopen, exposing the face of the uppermost .ticketand the tearing edge and gage upon the inner face of the opposite'half of the cover. Fig. 2 shows the book closed. Fig. 3 is a View corresponding to Fig. 2, but showing one of the tickets detached from the cover (along its perforated line) and inserted beneath the tearing edge ready to be separated into halves to indicate the amount of fare paid. Fig. 4 is a crosssectional detail of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 avview tearing edge, as hereinafter explained.

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of the` two portions of the completely-severed ticket.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in the several views.

The tickets to be used in connectionwith my present improvement may be 'printed the same as those shown in my prior patent-or in the slightly-different form shown in the accompanying drawings. The essential features of the ticket are that it shall be capable ,and Cents or equivalent indications and upon the other portion of the ticket opposite each of the three'divisions containing said words a cipher and the nine digits in regular order from right-to left. Somewhat smaller figures corresponding to those j ust mentioned Vare also preferably printed immediately adjacent the large figures above mentioned for the purpose hereinafter explained.

A proper supply of the tickets is suitably bound at their inner edges to one cover A of the book, the tickets being provided near their inner edges with longitudinal perforatedlines lines a to facilitate their removal. The opposite leaf B ofthe cover is hinged to the part A along theline b. It is somewhat narrower than the part A, as shown, so that when folded over upon the face of the tickets bound `this tearing edge and point are formed of a strip of tin. or othersheet metal` securedto the cover B by clenching-pointsC, punched out of the sheet metal and passed Athrough holes in the part B andfbent down uponthe outer facethereof. The inner edge of: this strip of sheet metal'is bent upward at right angles to the cover to form a gage E, against which the inner edges of the tickets may abut while they are being torn in halves alongIthe tis not at all essential that the gage E shall be formed of the upturned inner edge of the sheet-metal tearing edge, although this is a convenient arrangement.

The operation is as follows: When the conductor receives a cash fare, he takes the book of tickets from his pocket, opens it, and detaches the uppermost ticket along its perforated line. He then slips the detached ticket outward until it projects beyond the edge of the book, closes the portion B of the cover down upon its inner portion, and then slips the ticket inward toward the left until its inner edge abuts against the gage E, as shown in the sectional View in Fig. 4t. This will bring the large figures in the several denominational divisions immediately adjacent the tearing edge C, so that by sliding the ticket longitudinally of the tearing edge (the gage E serving to guide the ticket during such movements) any desired numbers in the several divisions may be brought successively beneath the tearing-point D. Thus if a cash fare of two dollars and thirty-five cents has been paid the conductor will slide the de.

tached ticket downward to the position shown inFig. 3,so thatthe figure 2 in the dollars division will be brought beneath the point D. He will then grasp the projecting right-hand edge of the ticket near its upper corner and pull the same upward along the tearing edge, severing the right-hand portion of the ticket from the left-hand portion down to a point below the tearing-point D and causing the latter to form a V-shaped notch in the righthand portion of the ticket and a corresponding V-shaped projection on the left-hand portion of the ticket, as shown in Fig. 5, where the projection on the left-hand portion of the ticket bears the figure 2, while the notch upon the right-hand portion of the ticket indicates the removal of the figure 2 from that portion, such removal being also further indicated, as a matter of convenience, by the similar figure 2 opposite the notch. After the conductor has indicated the dollar portion of the cash fare in this mannerl ofthe ticket and indicate the full fare, as shown in Fig. 5.

Instead of employing a tearing edge C with a projecting V-shaped tearing-point D the same result may be accomplished by the same mode of operation by providing the tearing edge with a V-shaped notch or recess, in which case the tickets will be bound in the book in reverse position from that shown in the drawings, (what is now the outer edge being then the inner edge at the perforated line,) and the gage E being so positioned that when the detached ticket is slipped inward against it into position for tearing the large figures of the several divisions will be singly exposed to view at the notch in the tearing edge, the division-line of the ticket being the same as at present and the result of the separation of the ticket along the tearing edge being the same as shown in Fig. 5.

Having thus t'ullydescribed my invention, I claimy 1. The herein-described ticket book and cutter, comprising the hinged covers A B, the supply of tickets detachably secured to the cover A, and the tearing edge C and gage E attached to the cover B, substantially as described.

2. The herein-described ticket book and cutter, comprising the cover A B, the supply ot' tickets detachably secu red to the cover A, and the tearing edge C and gage E secured to the cover B, the latter being of less width than the cover A and supply ot' tickets so that when closed upon the supply of tickets the latter will project beyond the tearing edge C, substantially as described.

3. The herein-described ticket book and cutter, comprising the cover A B, the supply of tickets detachably secured to the cover A, and the sheet-metal tearing edge C secured to the cover B and having its inner edge upturned to forni the gage E, substantially as described.

4. The herein-described ticket book and cutter, comprising the cover A B, the supply of tickets delachably secured to the cover A, the sheet-metal tearing edge C secured to the cover B and upturned at its inner edge to form the gage E, the cover B being of less width than the supply of tickets and cover A so that when closed upon the tickets the latter will project beyond the tearing edge C, substantiallyas described.

ALLEN I. BLANCHARD.

Vitnesses:

Lno'NonA WISEMAN, JOHN Il. BERKsTnEssnn.

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